Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-02-25
IN GENERAL.

A colored man in Missouri has been sen
fenced TO 30 years imprisonment for man
slaughter
A line was let down into an extinct cru
ter at Molokai, Sandwich Islands, distance
of $500 feet, without reaching bottom
Exactly $50 lives have been lost 50 far in
the construction Of the new Croton aque-
duct, near New York city.
Says the society column of a western pa
per '"The wedding was strictly private,
owing 10 the bridegroom being still in
mourning for his first wife.
The Baptists of Red Willow, Neb, last
week cut through two feet Of ice and i'm
mersed a number of converts, the mercury
at the time being 10 below zero.
The new gypsy queen, Lucy Stanley, is
a sister of the dead queen and very beauti
full. Her headquarters will be at Evans
vile, Ind.
Butcher shops are rapidly multiplying in
Japan. The natives have u strong belief
that the superiority Of foreigners in phys
ique and energy is due entirely to their
meat diet, and hence they are adopting it.
The Russian car, il is said, has lost the
gloomy expression which stamped his face
after the death of his father He is re
served in society, and seems perfectly at
tteot JIM oAiiphE iiin NAAh'li
John Burroughs, the writer, is postmas-
ter of West Park on the Hudson. His de
light in rural scenes and bird notes must be
Swallowed when he is asked to lick on
stamp.
There are as many as 1000 pieces of real
estate within two miles of the court house
in Savannah, Ga, owned by colored peo-
pie who were formerly slaves, bought and
paid for with their earnings.
three-room house at Ogden, Utah,
holds Willard Bingham, two wives, % IN
married children, five married sons, with
their wives and 10 children, with two hired
men in the attic.
A Missouri sheriff went home in disguise
one night TO see if his wife would scare.
She fired three shots at him 50 promptly
that he dropped his experiment and began
looking for the end of one of his fingers
It is stated that the ratio Of increase of
population in Germany is, like that in
France decreasing one From 1870 to
1880 the annual increase was | IA per cent.
From 1880 to 1885 it was OIL per cent.
The Ogdensburg journal says an iceboat
story told at Dexter is to the effect that
three men rode an iceboat from Sackets to
Dexter, distance of six miles, i'm five min
utes, and it is generally believed.
According to Gail Hamiton's vivid de
scrlption, Honolulu woman walks out IN
the ram clad IN shawl and nat trimmed
with red and white roses while her escort
carries her umbrella, dress and shoes.
lightning calculator gave AN exhibition
at Lansing Mich winning great admira-
ton by his rapid figuring He took up
collection and disappeared, and then it was
discovered that his totals were all wrong
The volcano Mauna Loa on Hawaii island,
is active. The eruption began on January
- with an emission of fire, smoke and lava.
The lava flows down the southern slope and
its natural course will take it To the sea
without doing much damage.
merchant of Carthage, ILL.,, as an ad-
vertising scheme, recently painted some
prodigious boot tracks leading from each
side of the public square to his establish
ment The novel scheme worked admira-
bly,, for everybody was curious enough to
follow the tracks to their destination.
AM nscrupulous farmer in Kansas. named
John Stehr, went to a money-lender and
borrowed cash on a mortgage of five white
steers, which he swore were on his farm
and belonged to him. Subsequently it
came out that they were the five little
Stehrs themselves, who couldn't be mort
gagged. The man has been arrested for
fraud
Miss Mildred Lee. daughter of the con
federate general, is spending the latter part
of the winter in Washington. Miss Lee is
a very striking looking person, clever, cul-
tivated and original. She resembles her
father and is simple and unassuming in
manner.
1t is predicted that the "Star of Bethle-
hem" will appear this wear for the sixth
time since the birth of Christ. This star is
said to appear directly north of the north
star and to be visible in its dazzling light,
at MONDAY. 1t is a solar orb, many times
the magnitude of our sun, whose orbit is
yet uncalculated by any astronomer.
1t is said that at the very least 81. 600 600
of Samuel j. Tilden's property will he de
voted to a public library for New York city.
and possibly double that amount His gift
was probably the largest certainly one of
the largest, ever made bv any one man for
a public institution, vet the public seem to
take but little interest in the matter
The saw in a portable sawmill on the
farm of l.. D. Wright. wealthy farmer
living eight miles from California. Mo-.
flew to pieces last Saturday. one part of it
cutting open Mr.. Wrights breast. exposing
his heart and killing him instantly. An
other piece carried away a part of the head
of Miss Thompson. a Young lady who had
gone to the mill to call the men to dinner.
She died in four hours.
A German chemist thinks he can lessen
the horrors of war bv his new anestbetic
bullet, which is made of some brittle sub
stance and is filed with a powerful anes-
thetic which produces instant insensibility
lasting - hours. Instead of killing the en-
emy he proposes to lombard them with an
esthetics, and lug them off prisoners be-
fore they can recover.
Tho n;ts nlart which s,coy,s IN o,raa+
abundance in Honduras has 6hre ,yb;cb
is susceptible of a Thousand uses The neo-
ME of the country convert IL into thread
for sewing boots and shoes, and into nets.
fshlines and cordage. The finest and most
costly hamnocks are also made of it. Small
quantities which have been sent to this
market have been manufactured into
handkerchiefs, laces ribbons. false hair and
wigs.
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count of its cathedral, a beautiful building
of brown stone, which cost 81 ,O00, 900 and
was built by Mrs A. T. Stewart in memo
ry of her husband.
Isaac w. Spraque. the famous living
skeleton. who died a little while ago. left a
snug fortune of $40 600 made M of the
dimes of curiosity seekers who Aocked to
see him during his long career as a LEADING
attraction at museums all over the coun-
try He left too. widow. who had we'd
ded him at Cleveland two years 400 lint
nor claim fo,. tba ,,,ora,, il ,ynntasta1 Ia,